"Similarly there have been issues with TLDs like .info and .cc which have been used by spammers and black hat SEOs to game Google through the use of exact match domains, a practice that is no longer as effective as it once was."

“Similarly there have been issues with TLDs like .info and .cc which have been used by spammers and black hat SEOs to game Google through the use of exact match domains, a practice that is no longer as effective as it once was.”